We have
included links to the few Pennsylvania vital records available online we could
find. Most of these are county birth, marriage and death records and in the
cases of birth and death records are predominately from before 1906. Except for
the Philadelphia death records 1803-1915 and Pittsburgh death records 1870-1905 all are only indexes or extracted data. The
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, PA death records include scanned images with the cause of death
and are those recorded by the cities and not any of those kept by the Pennsylvania
Department of Health.

Below the links for
Pennsylvania vital records are the links for those states for which there is
free online access to their older government birth, marriage and death
records comparable to Pennsylvania's state vital records, i.e. starting in 1906.
So far the death certificates for eighteen states, Washington, DC and
numerous counties and birth records for five states and marriage records for a number of
states have been scanned and the images are available online also fee free.

Extracted
data from the older state death records of Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Mexico and Washington, but these databases
do not include scanned images of the death certificates at this time.

Scanned images of the state
birth, marriages and death records of Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Vermont,
Virginia and
Washington are available online through Ancestry.com.
Ancestry also has extracted data from births, marriages and deaths for Rhode
Island. However access to the records requires a subscription to Ancestry, but at least
they are available to the public at large by some means (many libraries and LDS
Family History Centers have a
subscription to Ancestry and people can access these records without paying for
subscription by going to these libraries and centers).

Private concerns have
sporadically
extracted the information and it is available on different websites which often
require payment for access. There have also been a number of indexes developed
with some state run and some privately run (See "Online Searchable Death Indexes
for the USA" far down below). Where To Write For Vital Records" will take you to each
state's health or vital records agencies' websites where you can find further
information on the various requirements and restrictions in each state.

At this link
is our rundown of the overall accessibility and availability of birth and death
records and indexes for every state as best as we can determine:

Additionally the State of Washington, in cooperation with Microsoft
Research,
is digitizing many of the state's public and historic records. Eventually images
of the death certificates will be available online, but no date is projected.

West Virginia(West
Virginia Division of Culture and History)

(birth, death and marriage records from as early as
1840 to as late as 1970)